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MULTIPLE TRAP. Arme/nylon' msu JAN. 19, 1920.

l ,3534882. t Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

- UNITED STATES FRANK WJCIK, 0F oLYoKE, MASSACHUSETTS.

MULTIPLE TRAP.

Specication of Letters Patent. i Patented Sept. 28, 1920.

Application led'January 19` 1920. Serial No. 352.354.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, FRANKWJCIK, citizen of Poland, andresid'ent of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Multiple Traps, of which the following is a specification.

'This invention relates to traps, and particularly that class oftrapsv useful for catching mice, rats, and other rodents.

One object ,of the invention is to provide such a trap which will have the capacity and means for catching a number of rodents, instead of only one, asis the case with traps most generally used.

Another object vof the invention is to provide a trap having means operable by a rodent to imprison the rodent, the entrapping means of the tra-p thereupon, on the safe imprisonment of said rodent, resuming its previous position so as to be able to ent'rap 'a second rodent. By providing a receiving chamber for the rodents, of suflcient capacity, any number of rodents within the said capacity may be entrapped without attention to the trap. I.`

The above and other objects will become apparent in the description below, in which characters of reference refer to like-named parts inthe drawings.

Referring briefly to the drawings, Figure 1 represents my device in perspective projection.

Fig. 2 represents the same in a cross-sectional elevational view.

p Referring now in detail to the drawings,

the numeral 1 indicates the main frameof my device, and a ladder or runway 2 is hingedly mounted thereon at 3. A platform 4 having an oblong hole21 therein, com` prises the top of said frame 1. `Said top 4 is hingedly attached to said frame 1 by means of hinges 19,' and door 5 is mounted, upon a shaft 6, adapted to cover said hole or opening. Said door is so mounted that the greater part of its weight is to the left of said shaft, so that normally said door rests in a horizontal position'so as to close said opening. 2

A house-like structure 7 is hingedly attached to the platform 4 at 20, said structure standing over said opening 21. A

side Wall of the frame 1, as at 18, also inclined, so as to overshadow the'end of the chute 12. A tongue-like extension 16 is attached to the end of the chute 12 by means of a pin or pivot 14, and a spring 13 is attached to the underside of said chute 12 so that its free end presses upwardly against the said extension, keeping the latter normally inthe same'plane as the chute 12. The inner wall ofthe structure 7 has a hook or thelike thereon upon whichv is secured a .piece of bait 11.

Now the operation of the device is as follows: The rodent is attracted by the bait'll,

so that he enters the structure 7 to obtain said bait. He thereupon walks along the door 5 towardthe bait, and when he has passed the shaft '6, so as to overbalance the weight of said .door to the left of said shaft,

the door swings in a clockwise direction, dropping the rodent down through the opening 21. In its descent the rodent strikes the chute v12, slides down the same, and then falls into the water 23 in the bottom of said frame 1.. Should the rodent attempt an escape, the extension 16 would yield under his weight, so that he could not rise out of the water. After the fall of the rodent, the door 5 yhas resumed its normal position so las to close the opening 21, and the trap is ready to receive another animal; thus the trap may operate indefinitely without attention.

' Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: as follows:

A multiple trap comprisingV a frame, a

platform on the top o'f said frame, an openlng in saidplatform, a door pivotally mounted so asto normally close said opening, the center of gravity of said door being attached to the end of said first-named situated to one side of the pivot thereof, an chute, and Water or the like in the bottom inclined chute attached to the underside of of said frame under said opening. 10 said platform under said opening, a second Signed at Holyoke, ln the county of inclined ychute attached to the wall of said Hampden and State of Mass., this 26 day of frame and overshadowing said first-named December, A. D. 1919.

chute, an extension resiliently and pivotally FRANK WJCIK. 

